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Turdus fumigatus subsp. caparo Hartert

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Description

Turdus fumigatus caparo Hartert

Turdus fumigatus caparo Hartert, 1920: 475 (Caparo, Trinidad).

Now Turdus fumigatus aquilonalis (Cherrie, 1909). See Hellmayr, 1934: 384, and Clement, 2000: 426–427.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 503307, adult male, collected on the Caparo River, Chaguanas Prov., Trinidad I., Trinidad and Tobago, on 12 April 1902, by Eugene Andre´. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert’s type was a male collected on 12 April 1902 by Andre´. The above specimen, bearing the Rothschild type label, is the only André specimen collected on that date. The 11 paratypes are AMNH 503308– 503318.

This collection was reported on in full by Hellmayr (1906a), where he noted that the Caparo River was one of André’s localities.

Notes

Published as part of Mary, Croy, History, Bulletin Of The American Museum Of Natural, At, Central Park West, Street, Th, York, New & Ny, 2005, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 6. Passeriformes: Prunellidae, Turdidae, Orthonychidae, Timaliidae, Paradoxornithidae, Picathartidae, And Polioptilidae, pp. 1-132 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2005 (292) on page 50

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
AMNH
Material sample ID
AMNH 503307
Event date
1902-04-12
Verbatim event date
1902-04-12
Scientific name authorship
Hartert
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Turdidae
Genus
Turdus
Species
caparo
Taxon rank
subSpecies
Type status
holotype

References

  • Hartert, E. 1920. Types of birds in the Tring Museum. B. Types in the general collection (contd.). Novitates Zoologicae 27: 425 - 505.
  • Cherrie, G. K. 1909. New birds from the Orinoco region and from Trinidad. Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Science Bulletin 1 (6): 387 - 390.
  • Hellmayr, C. E. 1934. Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands. Part vii. Field Museum of Natural History Publications 330. Zoological Series 13: 1 - 531.
  • Clement, P. 2000. Thrushes. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 463 pp.
  • Hellmayr, C. E. 1906 a. On the birds of the island of Trinidad. Novitates Zoologicae 13: 1 - 60.